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Louisa Fielden

Louisa Fielden is one of British cinema’s brightest up and coming filmmakers. She was recently nominated for Best New Talent at the 2011 Media & Innovation Awards. When was the first time you watched a horror film, and how did it affect you? When I was about 11 I watched Dead of Night – an …

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FantasyCon 2011

So, on September 30, my wife and I set out for Brighton in order to attend the event that I (along with many others) have been looking forward to for the past twelve months – FantasyCon 2011, a three-day get-together of readers, writers, editors and publishers in a hotel, to celebrate everything to do with …

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Meet Craig

In a fairly leafy, suburban street in north Milton Keynes, just round the corner from an area of parkland, there sits a secretive and foreboding house. There are no windows on the front of this house nor means of seeing inside. There are no prying eyes here. The stark, concrete walls convey secrets – details …

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100 Horror Story Recommendations

Last week we brought you a five part horror story recommendation series spanning over seventy stories in novel, short story, novella and comic book form. Here is the list in its entirety, complete with twenty five extra entries. Simon Bestwick recommends: 1. The October Country by Ray Bradbury 2. Shock 3 by Richard Matheson: “Shock …

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Jack Ketchum Interview, November 2011

“Weed Species—easily the darkest, nastiest thing I’ve ever written” Fans of horror and suspense should need little introduction to the man Stephen King dubbed “the scariest guy in America”. Jack Ketchum has picked up numerous Bram Stoker Awards over the years and was recognised with the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award this year. He was …

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Angry Robot

Marc Gascoigne is Publishing Director and founder of Angry Robot, mouthy new kids on the block offering, as their cheeky slogan puts it, “SF, F and WTF?!”. When and how did Angry Robot form? Angry Robot published its first books just two years ago, in July 2009. Prior to that was close on a year of …

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Nicholas Grabowsky

What first attracted you to horror writing? I think horror writing was attracted to me. Ever since I became literate – around the second grade – I’ve been writing dark and freaky stories. I was born that way. My earliest memories of life go back to kindergarten, when the Rankin/Bass classic Mad Monster Party was …

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BC Furtney

What first attracted you to horror writing? I’ve been drawn to darker elements for as long as I can remember, not necessarily just horror. I don’t think I ever sat down and said, “I want to be a horror guy.” That just sort of developed on its own, with the short films I was doing …